Zen priest Gesshin Greenwood offers five tips for staying safe and sane online.
How to Read the News
How can we follow the news in ways that nurture – and don’t diminish – wellbeing? Media scholar Holly Stocking offers some guidance.
What Do You Put in Your Mind?
Just as you consume food, you consume media. And like food, some media is wholesome and some is unhealthy. Sister True Dedication on why you need to pay attention to what nourishes your mind.
4 Tips for a Going on a Media Diet
Sister True Dedication, a Buddhist teacher and former BBC journalist, offers tips for keeping your head clear in the modern media landscape.
Don’t Comment
In this short piece, Eli Brown-Stevenson explains his personal vow, “Don’t comment.”
Seeing Beyond the Screen
Yael Shy invites millennials to bring some mindfulness into their digital lives.
Is a More-Enlightened Social Media Possible?
Dan Zigmond, a Zen priest and the director of analytics for Facebook’s News Feed, says that social media can help people bring out their best selves.
Buddhists bring meditation to the streets and subways of NYC
A new and quickly growing organization called Buddhist Insights is helping New Yorkers meditate in all manner of surprising places.
On social media, Buddhists teachers, communities reckon with Trump’s election, aftermath
A roundup of thoughtful responses gleaned from Facebook and Twitter.
This Twitter bot tweets nothing every three hours
There are a lot of bots on Twitter that regularly tweet inspirational quotes or automated nonsense, but one new account is breaking through the noise. @john_cage_bot posts a random section from John Cage’s classic piece, 4’33”, every three hours. Here’s one profound example: When pianist David Tudor first performed it in 1952, Cage’s work, […]